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Wilson Chandler goes to China

he won't be playing in NBA if there is 2011/2012 season:

DENVER (AP)—Nuggets restricted free agent [Only registered and activated users can see links. ][Only registered and activated users can see links. ] will play in China this season and won’t be able to opt out of his deal and return to the NBA if there is a 2011-12 season.
Chandler’s agent, Chris Luchey, tells The Associated Press his client will play for Zhejiang Guangsha of the Chinese Basketball Association.

ESPN.com first reported the signing.
Earlier this month, the CBA said it will welcome free-agent NBA players, but will require them to play an entire season in China. The declaration came after [Only registered and activated users can see links. ][Only registered and activated users can see links. ] and others expressed interest in playing there if the NBA lockout drags on and results in the cancellation of all or part of next season.
In China, the 24-year-old Chandler will play for former NBA coach Jim Cleamons.

Wow, brave decision! Completely different culture, completely unknown language and communism. I dunno if I could be happy in China....Will the Thrill appears to be pretty 'American' to me. I bet he'll get homesick pretty fast.

WOW at first I saw this thread and was like "whats the big deal" until I was reminded that China clubs are not allowing NBA players that "out clause"

In theory will can make his 3.5 with a China club this year and sign on with a NBA team in April (end of the Chinese League's season) and make out pretty well financially this year

But he could not be on a playoff roster because the date in which you could add a player to your playoff roster wouldve come and gone.

Plus....3.5 million? Wilson was set to make about 5 million this year easily, plus the contract he signs with an NBA team in the spring would be proratted, so he will only make a fraction of the amount he actually signs for.

He is likely the best player over there now so he will make money off endorsements and such.

Maybe because deep down inside I wanted Wil to come back to The Knicks as he was my favorite player since his first summer league game when he (ironically) dominated Yi and the Chinesse National team is why I am against this move!

Wilson Chan-Duh

Wilson Chan-Duh must be the either the stupidest player in the league, or the smartest, if his agent really has inside knowledge of 2011-12 NBA season being a bust. no opt-out clause? making less than 1/2 of what he'd make on an NBA team? maybe Chan or his agent needs the money now, to buy some primo herbage, or pay off debts, who knows. this is a shadowy move from a professional viewpoint, but I wouldn't put it past a vapid player like Chan-Duh, or a greedy agent who wrote the writing on the wall for the end of Will-Lee's Knick career by having him become a free agent who was going to command/demand 10-12 million a year... i guess that dream is out the window. this just smells bad, like rotten leftover chinese food you forgot to put in the fridge. Chan and his agent can suck it. so wrong Wilson!

Communism really? They have got a totalitarian one party system, but that doesn't make it a communist country. Pessimists would say that this nothing more than a foretaste of what is to come for many of us. Money is getting sucked out of the western world 24-7, just look at China's international trade surplus. This money has to come from somebody else's pockets and the current lockout is an early symptom of money being transferred from the USA/Europe to emerging markets. I wouldn't be surprised about more quality players from all kinds of nations getting Chinese contracts which are more lucrative than NBA ones.

Communism really? They have got a totalitarian one party system, but that doesn't make it a communist country. Pessimists would say that this nothing more than a foretaste of what is to come for many of us. Money is getting sucked out of the western world 24-7, just look at China's international trade surplus this money has to come from somebody's pockets and the current lockout is an early symptom of money being transferred from the USA/Europe to emerging markets. I wouldn't be surprised about more quality players from all kinds of nations getting Chinese contracts which are more lucrative than NBA ones.

The only entity that has a worse record on human rites in the world is American Airlines. Japan is packed with Chinese ex-pats that fled the rich V poor see-saw.

China is a morally bankrupt country. Been there numerous times for business, and am not looking forward to going back.

To a degree, yes. Not on the North Korea scale, but you can look up that which hasn't been blanketed by their government and see some very, very ****ed up stuff. Their government are more twisted than Animal Farm.

To a degree, yes. Not on the North Korea scale, but you can look up that which hasn't been blanketed by their government and see some very, very ****ed up stuff. Their government are more twisted than Animal Farm.

Sure, but Communism excludes any kind of market mechanism. Everything is national property, even in Socialism. Communism would even mean that there is no money at all. People only work because they know the others work for them as well and all goods are exchanged trough the state on the basis of who needs how much. It is a dictatorship, not a totalitarian one, but definitely not Communism. I guess you can say that Communism was Mao's original plan and he took it as far as Stalinist Socialism, but Deng made the shift towards a capitalist market economy in the 80s already.
As long as Chandler did not go there because he can play there without getting paid and for having the chance to take whatever he needs (but not more) from any super market shelf without paying, this is not Communism.
Corrupt dictatorship, I give you that but not Communist, regardless of what they call their party and what their flag looks like.

Players Who Signed In China Won't Be Released From Contracts

<<Players Who Signed In China Won't Be Released From Contracts
Nov 28, 2011 11:29 AM EST

Many players were reluctant to sign in China after a rule was established that there would be no provision to allow them to opt out if the NBA lockout was resolved.

Kenyon Martin, Wilson Chandler and J.R. Smith are amongst the players who signed in China and there appears to be no willingness on the part of their teams to release them from their contact, according to sources.>>